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Poll: Best Actor in a (real life) last name title role?

Favorite Best Actor Oscar nominated performance in a (real life) last name titular role? Poll suggested by Rafael_M

Results of 4,195 votes:

  1. 1.

    Daniel Day-Lewis

     
    as Lincoln (2012)
  2. 2.

    Ben Kingsley

     
    as Gandhi (1982)
  3. 3.

    Robert Downey Jr.

     
    as Chaplin (1992)

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